A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…

The last profitable effect is fear and suspicion, care or solicitousness to avoid those evils which oppress our Nature; a cautelous discourse and consultation of reason, how it may either escape or prevent the evils which Experience hath taught it to decline, as a burnt child the fire. For all Passions so long as they collect reason, and set that on work, are of good use in the minds of Men; and indeed, the counsels and communion¹ of right reason alone, grounded on and guided by Religion, are only that Nepenthes and medicine against Grief, which who so mixeth ⟨p. 229⟩and applieth aright, shall not spend not load² himself with unuseful sorrow. Thuy as Bee• do poise themselves with little gravel stones, that they may not be carried away with the wind, which the Poet hath elegantly expressed:

The last profitable effect is feare and suspition, care or sollicitousnesse to avoid those evils which oppresse our Nature; a cautelous discourse and consultation of reason, how it may either escape or prevent the evils which Experience hath taught it to decline, as a burnt child the fire. For all Passions so long as they collect reason, and set that on work, are of good use in the minds of Men; and indeed, the counsels and communion¹ of right reason alone, grounded on and guided by Religion, are only that Nepenthes and medicine against Griefe, which who so mixeth ⟨p. 229⟩and applyeth aright, shall not spend not load² himself with unusefull sorrow. Thuy as Bee• doe poise themselves with little gravell stones, that they may not be carried away with the wind, which the Poet hath elegantly expressed:

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